epistasis in English
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the interaction of genes that are not alleles, in particular the suppression of the effect of one such gene by another.
Genetic epistasis of gene expression can also be considered with large sample sizes.
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1. Key words: recurrent selection, doubled haploids, additive, epistasis, heritability, Hordeum.
2. Finally, via epistasis analysis, we demonstrate that PTEN and FANCD2 function Cooperatively in ICL repair
3. Complex Boolean problems that contain epistasis, heterogeneity and overlap are used to test the Absumption method
4. In this sense, epistasis can be contrasted with genetic dominance, which is an interaction between alleles at the same gene locus.